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It is strik- ing that he never went into medical practice. His intent from the begin- ning seems to have been to do biomedical research. In any event, he has had a remarkable and distin- guished career, and he has enriched all of us by his essays. This book, in my view, is the best thing he has ever written. For people who have never read Lewis Thomas, it is a wonderful way to begin, and for people who have read him it is an even more wonderful way to continue. - JEREMY BERNSTEIN ßI\IEFL Y NOTED FICTION THE NArURAL ORDER, by Ursula Bentley (St. Martin's; $10.95). A funny first novel about three young women, best friends and Brontë- philes, who percolate from London to a Catholic boys' school in darkest ( sooty) Manchester. The narrator, Carol ("Reader, I was Charlotte"), is the second to go, having been recommended to the headmaster by the first ("Damaris was the Emily figure, the intellectual giant"), to fill an opening in the English de- partment. Their sweet and placid friend Anne ("Anne was Anne") soon joins them, when a secretarial position becomes available, and they all immediately fall in love with the Head Boy, four years their junior. By the time he is due to graduate, they should be on nickname terms with him, but he still addresses them, in class and off campus, as "Miss." Stranger, and happier, is the fact that Damaris and Carol and Anne are still speaking to each other. Meanwhile, a steely-eyed, virginal math teacher who beats bad boys with his squash shoe has failed to distract Carol, for long, from her quarry, but he does serve to measure a radical change in her professional style: within months she wIshes he would use "his track shoes with the little spikes." THE BREAKS, by Richard Price (Simon & Schuster; $15.95). About two- thirds of the way through this glo- rious, gritty comedy, Peter Keller, a twenty-some-year-old former "Bronx-Yonkers provincial," finds himself sitting on a stool, in the M- spotlight, at a Greenwich Village talent show and making his audi- ence-even the jaded bartender- laugh. The next week, he is back to teaching (English Composition) at his upstate alma mater. Why he feels this northerly tug is the dark, and romantic, side of the story, fea- turing his mild-mannered girlfriend, her ferocious school-age son ("a little rageball," as Peter describes his own school-age self), and her schizzy ex-husband, an English professor with "Angry Young Man Pied Piper charisma" whom Peter was barely above following only a few years before. Mr. Price's three previous novels ( "The Wanderers," "Blood brothers " and "Ladies' , Man"), with their nervy, tense, tough-guy gloom, bordered on self-parody: second-generation An- gry Young Man melodrama. "The Breaks" goes farther and does better in every way and in ev- ery episode, from a fathers-vs.-sons football game on a Yonkers play- ing field to a showdown with the ex-husband in a vacant upstate zoo. PRAISESONG FOR rHE WIDOW, by Paule Marshall (Putnam; $13.95). An elderly, genteel widowed black woman, named Avatara, aboard a Caribbean cruise ship, named the Bianca Pride, obeys an urge to dis- embark at Grenada after she dreams about her great-aunt, who used to participate in a sacred ceremony on an island off South Carolina where the descendants of slaves still honor their African ancestors. In the next few hours, Avatara's whole life- from a Brooklyn tenement to a pret- ty house in White Plains, and in- cluding childhood summers spent on the island-passes before her eyes. Then she finds herself invited to a sacred 'ceremony on an island off Grenada where the descendants of slaves still honor their African ancestors. Paule Marshall, accord- ing to the dust jacket, "has taught creative writing at Yale, Columbia, the University of Massachusetts in Boston, and is currently teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop." This novel, her third, could serve as a kind of sampler of literary clichés, from The Flashback to The Symbolic Name by way of sentences such as this: "Yet, with her mind continuing to swing like a pen- dulum gone amok from one end of her life to the other, she felt to be dwelling in any number of places at